The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 19/04/14 13:28, Adrian C wrote:
On 19/04/14 11:24, Huge wrote:
On 2014-04-19, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On 18 Apr 2014 09:51:31 GMT, Huge wrote:

TBH, it sounds like you'd be better off going to Linux.

IMO, LInux has just gone sideways over the last few years.

And I agree. Changes for the sake of change.


It's perhaps time that "the operating system" and "the GUI" became
greater separate entities in themselves, and one could be changed
without impacting the other. In a way, a Linux distribution is like that
(Gnome upon flavour of kernal) & Microsoft/Apple certainly not.

Apple IS in fact a gui built on BSD unix.



But then Ubuntu tries to import bits of Apple GUI screen candy, and
import Aero snap from Windows. Ugh.

Why are 'they' trying to turn the traditional computing desktop into a
games console?


Because that's what they think people want.

Look the desktop is dying back to a niche: most people want to consume
content, not create it, and creating it with a 'soft' keyboard or in the
case of graphics, with a fingertip is actually good enough for people
who are not writing long text. I'd massively benefit from a voice
recognition that would allow me to dictate instead of type, too.

Ergo Linux people are trying at the GUI level to emulate that.

That fine as long as others are trying to get a bug free trad style
desktop as well, for 'business' use.

Xfce is perhaps the most sane of those.



and Xubuntu is the best of all, why it is less popular then all the other
buntus is a mystery to me.

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